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INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2022 – THE GLASSWORKER

Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur (check out his comic books Lil and Put and the soon to be released in America Dollicious as well as the Netflix animated series he wrote Kayko and Kokosh) got to go to the best animation festival in the world, the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France. In this series of Infestation podcasts, he talks with our our Spider-Mike about the films he got to see. Their second film of the festival is the unfinished Pakistani film The Glassworker set to be released in 2023. Produced by the new Mano Animation Studios in Karachi, the story behind the film and a bunch of first-time animators that has come up with something that is almost Studio Ghibli levels of beautiful is amazing. Listen to Maciej and Mike tell you all about it.

Check out the showreel for the film here

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CROSSOVER EVENT #31: BEST ACTION COMEDIES

Like peanut butter and chocolate, action and comedy are greater than the sum of their parts. Exciting and dramatic, but also heartwarming and hilarious, action comedy movies are always a great time! …Except Shanghai Knights. Watch Chris Cox, Martin Thomas, and Wright Sulek battle over the best.

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I LOVE MY DAD MOVIE REVIEW

I Love My Dad is a story about Franklin (writer/director James Morosini), a young man struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. To aid his recovery, Franklin cuts all negative influences and toxic people out of his life. Specifically, that means his ne’er do well father, Chuck (Patton Oswalt). Despite being a loser and a compulsive liar, Chuck genuinely loves his son. When Franklin blocks him on Facebook, Chuck spirals into despair. Desperate to stay in touch with his son, Chuck creates a fake profile based on Becca (Claudia Sulewski), a young waitress who works at the diner Chuck frequents. At first, Franklin is suspicious of this pretty stranger with no other friends on Facebook, but he’s lonely, so he accepts her friend request.. Posing as “Becca”, Chuck is finally able to connect with his son, and they become online friends. Things take a turn for the worst when Franklin starts falling in love with the fake “Becca”. Afraid of losing his son again, Chuck continues the charade, even as Franklin’s feelings towards “Becca” become increasingly sexual. That’s right. This is a movie about a father who catfishes his own son, and then has to keep the lie going when the son decides to take the “relationship” to the next level. Before you know it, sexting is involved, and Chuck is driving Franklin to another state so he can finally meet “Becca” in person. Squicky hijinks ensue. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, but mostly you’ll cringe. Actually, you’ll cringe A LOT. Our reviewers Ryan, Melina, Harmoni, and Marco certainly did. Listen to their review to see whether this movie is worth all the showers you’ll need to take after watching it.

**You can also check out the review with Chris and Wright from the original premiere at SXSW right here**

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DIRECTED BY: James Morosini

STARRING: James Morosini, Patton Oswalt, Claudia Sulewski, Rachel Dratch, Ricky Velez, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker

YOUR REVIEWERS

Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)

By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.

“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”

Ryan Aleck Hill (Screener Squad, Video and Audio editor)

Ryan is a Washington D.C. based filmmaker & video editor who loves watching and talking about movies more than just about anything. He currently works at a creative agency as a director of photography/video editor, and does freelance video editing for Anthony Fantano/TheNeedleDrop. He also has a YouTube channel (Downhill Media) where he works on a weirdo art explainer series called “Artsplained” with his partner Michelle. He was a part of the Spill.com community way back in the day, where he was cursed with an obsession for movies. In an effort to break the curse, he shows up on the Screener Squad podcast every once in a while and edits for One Of Us. Chris Cox claims that this is the only way it can be broken. You can follow him on Twitter but you’ll probably regret it.

Melina Eames (Screener Squad)

Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.

Harmoni Anderson (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Unstabletop Gaming)

Harmoni is a mermaid-haired, millennial, rum drinking, Section 31, Slytherin (who’s divorced J.K. Rowling) preschool/nursery teacher and multi genre geek who also loves all things film, tv, fashion, makeup, and an embarrassingly huge BTS stan. Like really embarrassing. As in, mention them and then sit back and watch the insanity. Harmoni likes being able to game and talk movies/TV with people that aren’t 3 feet tall or all that demanding of her. Plus she can curse at us and not get fired….so bonus!

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PREY MOVIE REVIEW

In 1987, cinema was gifted with the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, Predator, the story of a muscle-bound group of mercenaries who headed to South America and ended up dying one by one at the hands of an extraterrestrial hunter. It was a lightning in a bottle movie that to this day remains one of the greatest action movies ever made. And since then, we’ve been offered several sequels of varying degrees of quality and success. Predator 2 saw the space slayer fighting some cops and gangs in 1990. A classic in its own right, impressive in its own ways. In 2004, the director of the Resident Evil movies gave us one fighting some Xenomorphs in Antarctica fulfilling a prop maker’s Easter Egg to, well, less than stellar reviews. And then the space killer landed in a small Colorado town in 2007 to fight more Xenomorphs. And that, um, sure was a movie. A few years later, in 2010, Robert Rodriguez got involved and gave us a Predators jungle planet. Okay, that was cool. Back to some basics, but it tanked at the box office. And finally, Shane Black gave us The Predator in 2018, with >ahem< arguably the most realistic predator to date. So, yeah, it’s been a rocky road for anyone to travel since that undeniable 1987 original legend. But here we are again. Another Predator movie. This one comes courtesy of Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane). This time, the hunter has landed in 1719 America where Naru (Amber Midthunder), a skilled Comanche warrior, protects her tribe from the highly evolved alien predator that hunts humans for sport. She must fight against the wilderness, dangerous French colonizers, and this mysterious creature in order to keep her people safe and prove her worth as a warrior. Sarah Jane, Chad, Neil, and T.C. spend this entire review explaining why this movie kicks so much ass. There may even be a debate if it is in fact not just the true successor to the original, but its superior.

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DIRECTED BY: Dan Trachtenberg

STARRING: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp, Julian Black Antelope, Bennett Taylor

YOUR REVIEWERS

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

Chad Halvorsen (Screener Squad)

Chad Halvorsen currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, where he produces and edits commercials, films, and everything in between. He was always a fan of film/television growing up, spending days in the Summer, making (terrible) home movies with his brothers. Little did he know that passion would carry on into adulthood. Since 2006, Chad has worked for several agencies in various departments. Shooting, producing, editing, production management, directing, and when forced to, writing copy. In 2015, Chad decided to take the big leap and become a freelancer. Since then, he’s produced content for Lyft, AT&T, Target, and Discovery Network. His passion lies in entertaining people, making them feel better, even for a moment. All the pain and suffering of this business is worth it, if even just one person views his work. Chad is a frequent podcaster, most notably posing as a co-host for the podcast “The Film Illogical Society.”

Neil Anderson (Screener Squad)

I first got hooked on movies when I saw Star Wars at a drive-in theater as a kid. Growing up in a small, rural town meant not having access to a lot of movies. In college, that all changed. I couldn’t get enough. I love it all — flicks, films, movies, and cinema. I still have that wide-eyed wonder of that kid watching movies from the back of a pick-up truck at the drive-in.

Sarah Jane (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Sarah Jane was born and raised in Southern California but currently calls Austin, TX her home. She’s seen over 5,700 movies so far with zero plans on stopping. She has a penchant for all things exploitation, and she loves Godzilla with all her heart. Her favorite films are Deep Red, Le Samourai, and Miller’s Crossing. When she isn’t watching movies, she’s busy herding her four cats, her husband, and her 11-year-old kiddo. She’s been a contributor to TalkFilmSociety, Daily Grindhouse, FThisMovie!, Looper, and the Austin Chronicle. You can find her on Twitter and Letterboxd at @fookthis.

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BODIES BODIES BODIES MOVIE REVIEW

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a darkly comic thriller about a group of young rich friends who’ve gathered in a remote mansion for a weekend of debauchery and psychologically charged party games. Joining the group is Bee (Maria Bakalova) a working class immigrant and the girlfriend of Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) who’s eager to introduce Bee to David (Pete Davidson) and the rest of her oldest and dearest friends. So why aren’t Sophie’s friends happy to see her? In fact, none of these longtime friends seem to like one another very much. To make matters worse, there’s a hurricane coming their way which knocks out the power and cell phone service. Fortunately, they prepared by bringing plenty of booze, flashlights, and glowsticks. What they didn’t prepare for was murder, the ultimate party foul. After one of the friends turns up dead, panic and paranoia set in, the bodies begin piling up, and everyone becomes a suspect. Can these vapid, narcissistic twentysomethings survive the night, or will they tear each other apart before the murderer does? Our reviewers Frank, Ben, Sarah Jane, and Marco crashed the party to see what it was all about. Did they enjoy this meaner, bloodier version of Clue for the TikTok generation, or were they eager to leave the party early? Listen to our review to find out.

**You can also listen to Chris and Wright review this during its premiere at SXSW 2022 right here**

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DIRECTED BY: Halina Reijn

STARRING: Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, Pete Davidson, Conner O’Malley

YOUR REVIEWERS

Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)

By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.

“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”

Ben Glasthal (Highly Suspect Review, Screener Squad, Breakfast Pub, Unstabletop Gamers, Video and Audio Editor)

Born in Boston, then ending up in Dallas, Texas in the early 2000s, Ben has always had a passion for film. He started in film school not long after where he launched MovieReelizations.com where he still writes reviews to this day. He’s since moved to Austin where he has been also hopping on podcasts and both editing and shooting videos for One of Us. A fan of films from almost all genres, and many that predate him more than makes sense, he is anything if not eclectic in what he’s watching at any point. For the rest of his free time, he can be found biking, drinking craft beer, being an amateur photographer, and playing video games by himself or on Twitch. He’s best found on Instagram or Twitter as @MovieReelBen.

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

Sarah Jane (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Sarah Jane was born and raised in Southern California but currently calls Austin, TX her home. She’s seen over 5,700 movies so far with zero plans on stopping. She has a penchant for all things exploitation, and she loves Godzilla with all her heart. Her favorite films are Deep Red, Le Samourai, and Miller’s Crossing. When she isn’t watching movies, she’s busy herding her four cats, her husband, and her 11-year-old kiddo. She’s been a contributor to TalkFilmSociety, Daily Grindhouse, FThisMovie!, Looper, and the Austin Chronicle. You can find her on Twitter and Letterboxd at @fookthis.

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NOT OKAY MOVIE REVIEW

Hulu’s recent dark comedy satire Not Okay opens with a card offering a content warning that “This film contains flashing lights, themes of trauma, and an unlikable female protagonist. Viewer discretion advised.” Unfortunately, it’s not entirely clear that that is intended to be a joke. Hulu isn’t going to start throwing warnings of mean ladies at the front of their movies. It’s an attempt at satire that misses the mark. And, as Harmoni, Ryan, Chad and T.C. discuss, that might be a problem with this movie. It doesn’t know if it wants to be pertinent dark comedy or poignant social commentary drama. Danni Sanders (played by Zoey Deutch), is a privileged and aspiring writer with zero social media presence and no actual friends. She is desperate to claim a level of fame and celebrity she absolutely believes she deserves. She fakes a trip to Paris with social media posts and is flung into a massive lie when a terrorist attack occurs in France the very moments she’s supposedly there. Danni is showered with attention, and decides to lean into the lie. Her job gives her a promotion she doesn’t deserve. She hooks up with famous social media douche bag and proto-Paul brother (Dylan O’Brien). But worst of all, she befriends Rowan (Mia Isaac), a young survivor of a tragic school shooting. Danni leeches off of Rowan’s fame and grief while making her first and only true friend. But, lies this big tend to implode, and as the movie tells us in the opening moments, it definitely does. But, like a fake trip to France, it’s about the journey, not the destination. So, what did the Squad think about the journey of Danni Sanders? Was it Okay or Not?

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DIRECTED BY: Quinn Shephard

STARRING: Zoey Deutch, Mia Isaac, Dylan O’Brien, Nadia Alexander, Tia Dionne Hodge, Negin Farsad, Embeth Davidtz, Brennan Brown, Karan Soni, Dash Perry, Sarah Yarkin, Caroline Calloway, Quinn Shephard, Rocco Botte, Shawn Chatfield

YOUR REVIEWERS

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

Harmoni Anderson (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Unstabletop Gaming)

Harmoni is a mermaid-haired, millennial, rum drinking, Section 31, Slytherin (who’s divorced J.K. Rowling) preschool/nursery teacher and multi genre geek who also loves all things film, tv, fashion, makeup, and an embarrassingly huge BTS stan. Like really embarrassing. As in, mention them and then sit back and watch the insanity. Harmoni likes being able to game and talk movies/TV with people that aren’t 3 feet tall or all that demanding of her. Plus she can curse at us and not get fired….so bonus!

Ryan Aleck Hill (Screener Squad, Video and Audio editor)

Ryan is a Washington D.C. based filmmaker & video editor who loves watching and talking about movies more than just about anything. He currently works at a creative agency as a director of photography/video editor, and does freelance video editing for Anthony Fantano/TheNeedleDrop. He also has a YouTube channel (Downhill Media) where he works on a weirdo art explainer series called “Artsplained” with his partner Michelle. He was a part of the Spill.com community way back in the day, where he was cursed with an obsession for movies. In an effort to break the curse, he shows up on the Screener Squad podcast every once in a while and edits for One Of Us. Chris Cox claims that this is the only way it can be broken. You can follow him on Twitter but you’ll probably regret it.

Chad Halvorsen (Screener Squad)

Chad Halvorsen currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, where he produces and edits commercials, films, and everything in between. He was always a fan of film/television growing up, spending days in the Summer, making (terrible) home movies with his brothers. Little did he know that passion would carry on into adulthood. Since 2006, Chad has worked for several agencies in various departments. Shooting, producing, editing, production management, directing, and when forced to, writing copy. In 2015, Chad decided to take the big leap and become a freelancer. Since then, he’s produced content for Lyft, AT&T, Target, and Discovery Network. His passion lies in entertaining people, making them feel better, even for a moment. All the pain and suffering of this business is worth it, if even just one person views his work. Chad is a frequent podcaster, most notably posing as a co-host for the podcast “The Film Illogical Society.”

You can subscribe to the Highly Suspect Reviews and Screener Squad series of podcasts on iTunes, Spotify, and more, or use our RSS feed on whatever podcast service you use: https://oneofus.net/feed/theatrical-movie-review-podcast/ and please leave us a review!

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RESURRECTION MOVIE REVIEW

In 1999 an evil Scottish villain named Fat Bastard stared down a mini me and said “Get in my Belly!”. This hilarious timeless quote is most likely not the inspiration for writer/director Andrew Semans film Resurrection but it would certainly explain a lot if it influenced it to some degree. Margaret (Rebecca Hall) is the living embodiment a of that idea that women can have it all. She is a total boss at work, has a sexy/saucy lover with no strings attached, and is a loving single mother of a wonderfully charming daughter named Abbie. As the baby bird Abbie embarks on her flight from the nest into her freshman year at college, a creepy looking weirdo named David (Tim Roth) starts to show up ever so effortlessly into the background of Margaret’s life. Soon, it is revealed that David is from Margaret’s past and he has something over her that could control her entire future unless she complies to his every whim. Bradly, Jordan, and Frank invite you to the therapy sofa and praise the brilliance of Rebecca Hall, discuss trauma in fiction as a coping method for healing, and consider whether or not a third act can destroy the good will of an entire film.

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DIRECTED BY: Andrew Semans

STARRING: Rebecca Hall, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, Angela Wong Carbone, Tim Roth, Josh Drennen, Rosemary Howard, Winsome Brown, Jaime Zevallos, Owen Johnson, Jackson Finnegan, Zarra Kaahn

YOUR REVIEWERS

Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)

Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Throughout the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC. From LeBron James to James Bond and Lord of the Rings to Lord Palmerston (or Pitt the Elder if you agree with Wade Boggs) and is a huge fan of dad jokes and randomly obscure Simpsons references. Armed with a vast knowledge of comics, films, and pop culture. Bradly traveled the world making friends and sharing takes. As a young man Bradly married the love of his life young and grew older every year with each new child brought into the brood. If trends continue, Scientists predict that .2% of Canada (where Bradly and family reside) will be populated by Bradly’s children by the year 2029. You can hear him leading and listening to his favorite critics on the Screener Squad and Eye on the prize and maybe even provide some comments of his own.

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

You can subscribe to the Highly Suspect Reviews and Screener Squad series of podcasts on iTunes, Spotify, and more, or use our RSS feed on whatever podcast service you use: https://oneofus.net/feed/theatrical-movie-review-podcast/ and please leave us a review!

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PAPER GIRLS SERIES REVIEW

Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel hit, Paper Girls, has finally been adapted into a new Amazon TV series! The story follows Tiff, Mac, KJ, and the ‘New Girl’ Erin as they start their paper route the day after Halloween in 1988. As they’re hassled by local drunk high schoolers, they find themselves in the middle of an interdimensional time-war! The story gets weirder from here as we’re introduced to the STF and the Old Watch; two factions that are fighting to maintain the future they want from either traditional or freedom of choice. Yet the core of the series is about the girls’ acceptance of who they are and who they may become in the future. Jordan, Ben, and Wright navigate the windy time bending roads and determine if Paper Girls is a timeless show.

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CREATED BY: Stephany Folsom

STARRING: Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet, Sofia Rosinsky, Fina Strazza, Adina Porter, Ali Wong, Nate Corddry, Sekai Abenì, Jason Mantzoukas, Jessika Van

YOUR REVIEWERS

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.

Ben Glasthal (Highly Suspect Review, Screener Squad, Breakfast Pub, Unstabletop Gamers, Video and Audio Editor)

Born in Boston, then ending up in Dallas, Texas in the early 2000s, Ben has always had a passion for film. He started in film school not long after where he launched MovieReelizations.com where he still writes reviews to this day. He’s since moved to Austin where he has been also hopping on podcasts and both editing and shooting videos for One of Us. A fan of films from almost all genres, and many that predate him more than makes sense, he is anything if not eclectic in what he’s watching at any point. For the rest of his free time, he can be found biking, drinking craft beer, being an amateur photographer, and playing video games by himself or on Twitch. He’s best found on Instagram or Twitter as @MovieReelBen.

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DELIBERATIONS OF DOOM – VOL.3 EP.9: FOUND FOOTAGE PT.3

The Doomers take on found footage one last time in this series as they take a look at Hell House LLC, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, and Unfriended: Dark Web. If you haven’t seen any of these you are missing out and we give them the props they deserve. Well, some of us do.

YOUR REVIEWERS

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

Madelynne Fontenot (Deliberations of Doom, Highly Suspect Reviews)

Madelynne is a bayou-sourced, Seattle-born Austinite babe. Raised a nerd since birth, she gets very excited about science, does her best to know a little bit about everything, and is fluent in both English and French. When not at her day job, Madelynne spends most of her time trying to catch up on TV series that she has yet to finish because she keeps starting them from the beginning, snuggling her two miniature dachshunds, glaring at watercolor paintings she will eventually finish, and deciding whether to play Animal Crossing or World of Warcraft, all of this usually with a sour beer or glass of wine in-hand. She has an obsession with all things iridescent and holographic, and you’d never know it by the way she dresses, but her favorite color is in fact pink, and not black. She has had a very book-oriented life up to this point and is on a journey to expand her movie horizons.

Alan Galinsky (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Deliberations of Doom)

Born and raised in Texas, Alan Galinsky is a lifetime movie fan. As a youth, he would rent multiple movies every weekend and go to the theater for the latest releases, and that pace has remained steady. When Alan isn’t watching movies, you can find him talking about movies. When he’s not talking about movies, you can find him playing music in the band Delicate Boys.

Drew Tinnin (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Deliberations of Doom)

Drew Tinnin is a Rondo Award nominated interviewer and critic who has worked at SiriusXM’s Fangoria Radio and Fangoria magazine in NYC, as well as the London-based Dazed Digital. Currently a regular contributor to the Dread Central Network, he’s excited to join up with some old friends and other film fans on One of Us as a new contributor to Screener Squad.

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DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS MOVIE REVIEW

In this animated film from the pages of DC Comics, the story doesn’t follow the superheroes from the universe we know so well, but their pets. More specifically, Krypto voiced by Dwayne Johnson. Superman’s equally powered dog loves his life and loves his best friend Clark Kent. But one day their equilibrium is interrupted by Lois Lane when Clark decides he wants to marry her. Feeling like he’s going to be shut out, Krypto is depressed but when a Lex Luthor plan to use Orange Kryptonite to get his own superpowers ends up instead empowering all the animals in a local shelter, he teams up with a dog named Ace (Kevin Hart), a pig named PB (Vanessa Bayer), a turtle named Merton (Natasha Lyonne) and a squirrel named Chip (Diego Luna). Together they have to use their new powers and defeat their own bad instincts to battle against the world domination schemes of a hairless guinea pig named Lulu (Kate McKinnon) who has captured the Justice League. Ok, yeah, it sounds ridiculous, and it is, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy it. Some of us more than others. Join Chris, Wright, and Spider-Mike as they break down this new animated comedy film.

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DIRECTED BY: Jared Stern

STARRING: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna, Thomas Middleditch, Keanu Reeves, Marc Maron, Olivia Wilde, Jameela Jamil, Jemaine Clement, John Early, Daveed Diggs, Dascha Polanco, Keith David, Sam J. Levine, Maya Erskine, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alfred Molina, Lena Headey, Busy Philipps, Dan Fogler, Winona Bradshaw

YOUR REVIEWERS

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

Michael Riojas (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

The man with the ever-changing nicknames. Born in Austin, Riojas was rocketed to Del Rio, Texas, a literal small ville. In his youth, he was bitten by a radioactive… okay, look. Mike is not very good at this whole “talking about himself” thing. But he has been so obsessed with comics, video games, and anime since childhood- that if one has to choose between listening to Joe Quesada or Mike over any obscure Spider-Man trivia, they go to him (or, at least Martin Thomas once said so). He is also a big fan of “Ghostbusters” (he even owns his own jumpsuit and two, that’s right, TWO proton packs!), collects toys and video games, and will defend “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” if provoked. He lives in Austin with his beloved Dachshund-Maltese and trusted sidekick, Dean. He can also be heard on RageSelect. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram.

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

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